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most people can maintain their weight on. If you’re a smaller guy who sits on his butt in an office all day, that number could be closer to 2500 calories & if you’re female it could be lower again. Because of this, there is going to come a time when you stop losing weight on your diet, so there could be some weeks where you don’t make any progress and will need to cut calories even further. It might even get to the point where you are so tired and hungry you need a week off or a “diet break” and this all adds onto the timeframe you need to allow to get lean. You’ve probably heard about the problems associated with dieting; hunger, decreased training perfor- mance, muscle loss,